Vocabulary Quiz Informative Prompt Writing Practice
Thursday
Finish Writing Prompt Review Study Island Post Test
Friday No School - Easter Break
Week of March 23rd
Monday
Vocabulary Bitstrip presentation.
Tuesday
Unit Nine Vocabulary introduction
Wednesday - Thursday
Argumentative Writing Prompt Practice
Friday
Study Island Assignments - Punctuation and Spelling
Week of March 16th
Monday
No School
Tuesday
Review CDT scores
Review TDA with exemplars, peer review and self-score
Wednesday - Thursday
Review domain specific vocabulary.
Create a bitstrip comic that explains teacher assigned domain specific vocabulary words.
Present that bitstrip.
Friday
Reading Day
Week of March 9th
Monday CDT
Tuesday
AR Review
Read Letter to Abigail Williams and respond to PSSA style multiple choice questions
Prepare to complete a TDA
Wednesday
Review multiple choice questions
Complete a TDA
Thursday
CDT, TDA and Study Island Make Up
Friday
No School Week of March 2nd
Monday
Vocabulary Review Activity
Tuesday
Vocabulary Packet, Unit 8 due.
Wednesday
Vocabulary Test on Unit 8 words
Thursday - Friday
CDT
Week of February 23rd
Monday
Introduction to Unit Eight Vocabulary - Due March 3rd.
Tuesday
Introduction to PSSA writing prompts - narrative, argrumentative, and informative. Students will write to a PSSA narrative prompt.
Wednesday
Review PSSA Rubric Peer review narrative prompt. Read examples of different prompts.
Thursday
Reading Day
Friday
Study Island
Week of February 16th
Monday
No School
Tuesday
Read "Its Not About the Bike" and "23 Days in July" and respond to the margin questions starting on page 814.
Wednesday
Review Unit 7 vocabulary quiz and TDA on "Homeless."
Review "Its Not About the Bike" and "23 Days in July."
Thursday
Test and TDA on "Its Not About the Bike" and "23 Days in July."
Friday
Study Island
Week of February 9th
Monday
Journal
Review "What Do Fish Have to do With Anything?"
Read "Homeless" and review as a whole group.
Tuesday
Journal
Unit Seven Vocabulary Due
Wednesday
Vocabulary Quiz
Text Dependent Analysis of both "Homeless" and "What do Fish Have to do with Anything?"
Thursday
Reading Day
Friday
No School
Week of February 2nd
Monday
Journal
Review "Brian's Song" test.
Review text dependent analysis and rubric.
Students can review and revise their own TDA (text dependent analysis) - Due Wednesday.
Tuesday
Journal PSSA Prep Question
"Brian's Song" Essay Due
Introduction to Unit Seven Vocabulary - Due next Tuesday
Wednesday
Journal
PSSA Prep Question
Revised TDA due
Read "What do Fish have to do with Anything?" on page 350 and respond to the margin questions.
Thursday
Journal
PSSA Prep Question
Review "What do Fish have to do with Anything."
Friday
Review Writing CDTs
Introduce Study Island Writing Practice
Week of January 26th
Monday
Journal - What do you expect will be different from the movie, "Brian's Song" from what we read? PSSA Prep Question Introduce Movie project - essay comparing and contrasting the film to the teleplay read in class. Begin movie, "Brian's Song."
Tuesday
Journal - What are some differences from the movie and the teleplay? PSSA Prep Question Watch movie, "Brian's Song."
Wednesday
Journal - What are some similarities between the movie and the teleplay. PSSA Prep question Watch movie, "Brian's Song."
Thursday
Finish movie, "Brian's Song." Start a rough draft of the essay.
Friday Continue draft of essay. Begin typing on Word 365 - final copy due on Monday.
Week of January 19
Monday No School
Tuesday
Journal - What do you think will happen to Brian and Gale? Why?
PSSA Prep Question
Part Two of "Brian's Song."
Wednesday
Journal - What is something that scares you?
PSSA Prep Question
Finish Part Two. Read "Pic." Read and review selection questions.
Thursday
Test on "Brian's Song."
Friday
Reading Day
Week of January 12th
Monday
Journal - Why do you come to school?
Introduction to PSSA question prep
Review "Brian's Song."
Continue reading Part One of "Brian's Song."
Tuesday
Journal - What is important to Brian? What is important to Gale?
PSSA Prep question
Finish Part One of "Brian's Song."
Wednesday
Journal - Use four of your vocabulary words in a journal entry.
PSSA Prep question
Vocabulary - Unit Six Due - Vocabulary 4Square due tomorrow.
Thursday
Journal -
Unit Six Vocabulary Quiz
PSSA Prep Quesiton
Part Two of "Brian's Song."
Friday
Journal -
PSSA Prep Question
Part Two of "Brian's Song."
Week of January 5th
Monday
Journal - What is more important, winning or friendship?
Introduction to drama
Begin reading "Brian's Song."
Tuesday
Journal - Do aliens exist?
Introduction to Unit Six Vocabulary - Due Wednesday, January 14th.
Wednesday
Journal - What do we know about Brian and Gale?
Continue reading "Brian's Song."
Thursday
Journal - Summarize "Brian's Song" so far.
Finish Part One of "Brian's Song."
Friday
Reading Day
Week of December 22nd
Monday - Tuesday
No Journal
Presentation of Bitstrip story to the class.
Wednesday - Friday
Happy Holidays!
Week of December 15th
Monday - Wednesday
Journals - Monday - Describe the five elements of story. Tuesday - What is your bitstrip story? Wednesday - What is the best part of the holiday season?
Students will create their own story - they will present it as a bitstrip. They should have their prewriting finished for Tuesday.
Thursday
Vocabulary Packet - Unit Five Due - Journal - Use four vocabulary words in a paragraph.
Friday
No Journal
Vocabulary Quiz - Unit Five
Finish Bitsrip Assignment
Week of December 8th
Monday - Wednesday
Students will be completing a second round of CDT testing.
Thursday
Journal - What is something difficult to do?
Introduction to Unit Five Vocabulary - due Thursday, December 18th.
Friday
Reading Day
Week of December 2nd
Monday
No School
Tuesday
Journal - What are you thankful for?
Share Bitstrip comic and embed on wiki.
Wednesday
Journal - Who deserves a second chance?
Review third person point of view and read "A Retrieved Reformation." Students will respond to the margin questions as they read.
Thursday
Journal - Summarize "A Retrieved Reformation."
Review "A Retrieved Reformation."
Friday
Students will plan and perform a short Third Person Point of View play.
Week of November 24th
Monday - Wednesday
No Journal
Students will be introduced to bitstrips for schools. Students will create an avatar and a comic about one of the elements of short story. They will embed that comic on the class wiki. If they finish early, they will be able to read their AR book and share those comics with classmates.
Thursday-Friday
No School
Week of November 17th
Monday
Journal - What is something you treasure?
Review graphic organizers for "The Scholarship Jacket."
End of reading questions assigned.
Tuesday
Journal - Describe the five elements of story.
Review questions
Review for selection test tomorrow
Introduce writing piece - # 9 on page 232
Wednesday
Selection test on "The Scholarship Jacket."
Thursday
Journal - Write a paragraph using four of your vocabulary words.
Unit Four Vocabulary due
Continue writing piece
Friday
No Journal
Unit Four Vocabulary Quiz
Students will use their OneDrive to type their writing piece.
Week of November 10th
Monday
No School - Parent Conferences
Tuesday
Journal - What is a legend?
Introduction to Unit Four vocabulary.
Wednesday
Journal - Respond to page 224 in the textbook.
Students will read "The Scholarship Jacket" and respond to the questions in the margins.
Thursday
Journal - Describe the plot of "The Scholarship Jacket."
Review "The Scholarship Jacket" as a whole class.
Friday
No Journal
Reading Day
Week of November 3rd
Monday - Tuesday
Students will present their podcasts to the class for review.
Wednesday
Introduction to Unit Four Vocabulary.
Thursday
Journal - Happiness is...
Students will read the nonsense poem, The Jabberwocky and write their own poem using rhyme, lines and stanzas.
Friday
Students will be introduced to their student email account. They will email a copy of their nonsense poem.
Week of October 27th
Monday
Students will work on a rough draft of an argumentative essay.
Tuesday
Students will peer review essay.
Wednesday
Students will revise essays and work on podcast as a final draft.
Thursday
Unit three vocabulary due.
Friday
Unit three vocabulary quiz.
Continue working on podcast.
Week of October 20th
Monday
Margin questions for "Rikki-tikki-tavi" due. We will review the questions and assign a plot triangle for the story.
Tuesday
Review "Rikki-tikki-tavi" and introduce argumentative writing piece on page 162.
Wednesday
Students will have a test on "Rikki-tikki-tavi."
Thursday
Students will have a class day to plan and draft their argumentative essay - rough draft will be worked on Monday, October 27th.
Friday
The last Reading Day before the end of the nine weeks.
Week of October 13th
Monday
Teacher In Service
Tuesday - Thursday
Students will read the short story "Rikki-tikki-tavi" with a partner. What they do not finish will be homework due on Monday, October 20th.
Friday
Reading Day
Week of October 6th
Monday
Vocabulary, Unit Two due.
Introduce Constructed Response
Tuesday
Vocabulary Quiz
Students will continue draft constructed response.
Wednesday - Thursday
Students will peer review essays.
Students will post constructed response wikispaces.
Friday
Reading Day
Week of September 29th
Monday - Tuesday
With a partner, students will read "The Last Dog" starting on page 48 and respond to the questions in the margins.
Wednesday
Large group discussion of "The Last Dog."
Thursday
Introduction to constructed response on page 64.
Selection test on "The Last Dog."
Friday
Drafting of constructed response.
Week of September 22nd
Monday - Wednesday
Students will be introduced to computer use in the classroom and will be taking their CDT (Classroom Diagnostic Tool).
Thursday
Students will be introduced to Unit Two Vocabulary.
Friday
Students will have a Reading Day.
Week of September 15th
Monday
Introduction to literature and short story. Students will review pages 34 and 35 and begin reading "Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto with a partner.
Tuesday - Wednesday
Students will continue to read the selection with a partner.
Thursday
Whole class review of the selection.
Friday
Students will have a test on "Seventh Grade."
Week of September 8th
Monday - Tuesday
Students will outline their narrative essay and complete a first draft. They are writing about something that happened to them during the first two weeks of school.
Wednesday
Students will respond to a peer's draft.
Thursday
Students will create a final copy...old school style.
Friday
Students will finish their final copy and then read their AR book.
Week of September 1st
Monday
Labor Day - No School
Tuesday
I Am Poems are due. Students will present them to the class.
Wednesday
Students will finish presenting I Am Poems. Introduction to the Writing Process and Narrative Writing.
Thursday
Vocabulary Unit One Due - We will review the vocabulary.
Prewriting and Drafting as part of the writing process.
Friday
Vocabulary Quiz on Unit One.
Introduction to using the computers in the classroom and Study Island Pretest.
Week of August 25th
Monday
Introduction to the class. Students will bring home information for parents including information for Remind.
Tuesday
Introduction to Unit One Vocabulary, due September 4th..
Monday
No School - Memorial Day
Tuesday - Thursday
Students will prepare/prewrite/draft/revise/share a fractured fairy tale.
Friday
Review journal writing, fractured fairy tale and good luck for the year!
Week of May 11th
Monday - Friday
Students will continue cross curricular research project with social studies.
Week of May 4th
Monday - Friday
Students will be working on a cross curricular research project with social studies in the library.
Week of April 27th
Monday - Tuesday
Students will finish their poetry book and present it to the class.
Wednesday
Introduction to Research Project and CHoMPing.
Thursday
Friday
Reading Day
Week of April 20th
This week, students will be taking the Math PSSA. Because of scheduling, some classes may not meet every day.
Monday
Journal -
Review poetry and poetry assignments completed.
This is Just to Say poetry
Narrative poetry
Introduce poetry book.
Tuesday - Friday
Students will work on their poetry book using storyjumper.com.
Week of Aprils 13th
Over the next two weeks, students will be taking the ELA and Math PSSA tests. Because of scheduling, some classes may not meet every day.
Monday
Journal - What do you need to remember when taking the PSSA test?
PSSA review
Review Names poem from Friday.
Tuesday
Metaphor and Simile
Wednesday
Sound devices - alliteration, rhyme, rhythm, repetition
Thursday
Imagery and a favorite childhood place
Friday
This is Just to Say poetry
Week of April 6th
Monday
No School - Easter Break
Tuesday
Review informative writing.
Wednesday
Introduction to poetry - a color poem
Thursday
Haiku
Friday
Limerick
Week of March 30th
Monday
Vocabulary Packet Due
Vocabulary 4Square
Tuesday - Wednesday
Vocabulary Quiz
Informative Prompt Writing Practice
Thursday
Finish Writing Prompt Review
Study Island Post Test
Friday
No School - Easter Break
Week of March 23rd
Monday
Vocabulary Bitstrip presentation.
Tuesday
Unit Nine Vocabulary introduction
Wednesday - Thursday
Argumentative Writing Prompt Practice
Friday
Study Island Assignments - Punctuation and Spelling
Week of March 16th
Monday
No School
Tuesday
Review CDT scores
Review TDA with exemplars, peer review and self-score
Wednesday - Thursday
Review domain specific vocabulary.
Create a bitstrip comic that explains teacher assigned domain specific vocabulary words.
Present that bitstrip.
Friday
Reading Day
Week of March 9th
Monday
CDT
Tuesday
AR Review
Read Letter to Abigail Williams and respond to PSSA style multiple choice questions
Prepare to complete a TDA
Wednesday
Review multiple choice questions
Complete a TDA
Thursday
CDT, TDA and Study Island Make Up
Friday
No School
Week of March 2nd
Monday
Vocabulary Review Activity
Tuesday
Vocabulary Packet, Unit 8 due.
Wednesday
Vocabulary Test on Unit 8 words
Thursday - Friday
CDT
Week of February 23rd
Monday
Introduction to Unit Eight Vocabulary - Due March 3rd.
Tuesday
Introduction to PSSA writing prompts - narrative, argrumentative, and informative.
Students will write to a PSSA narrative prompt.
Wednesday
Review PSSA Rubric
Peer review narrative prompt.
Read examples of different prompts.
Thursday
Reading Day
Friday
Study Island
Week of February 16th
Monday
No School
Tuesday
Read "Its Not About the Bike" and "23 Days in July" and respond to the margin questions starting on page 814.
Wednesday
Review Unit 7 vocabulary quiz and TDA on "Homeless."
Review "Its Not About the Bike" and "23 Days in July."
Thursday
Test and TDA on "Its Not About the Bike" and "23 Days in July."
Friday
Study Island
Week of February 9th
Monday
Journal
Review "What Do Fish Have to do With Anything?"
Read "Homeless" and review as a whole group.
Tuesday
Journal
Unit Seven Vocabulary Due
Wednesday
Vocabulary Quiz
Text Dependent Analysis of both "Homeless" and "What do Fish Have to do with Anything?"
Thursday
Reading Day
Friday
No School
Week of February 2nd
Monday
Journal
Review "Brian's Song" test.
Review text dependent analysis and rubric.
Students can review and revise their own TDA (text dependent analysis) - Due Wednesday.
Tuesday
Journal
PSSA Prep Question
"Brian's Song" Essay Due
Introduction to Unit Seven Vocabulary - Due next Tuesday
Wednesday
Journal
PSSA Prep Question
Revised TDA due
Read "What do Fish have to do with Anything?" on page 350 and respond to the margin questions.
Thursday
Journal
PSSA Prep Question
Review "What do Fish have to do with Anything."
Friday
Review Writing CDTs
Introduce Study Island Writing Practice
Week of January 26th
Monday
Journal - What do you expect will be different from the movie, "Brian's Song" from what we read?
PSSA Prep Question
Introduce Movie project - essay comparing and contrasting the film to the teleplay read in class.
Begin movie, "Brian's Song."
Tuesday
Journal - What are some differences from the movie and the teleplay?
PSSA Prep Question
Watch movie, "Brian's Song."
Wednesday
Journal - What are some similarities between the movie and the teleplay.
PSSA Prep question
Watch movie, "Brian's Song."
Thursday
Finish movie, "Brian's Song."
Start a rough draft of the essay.
Friday
Continue draft of essay.
Begin typing on Word 365 - final copy due on Monday.
Week of January 19
Monday
No School
Tuesday
Journal - What do you think will happen to Brian and Gale? Why?
PSSA Prep Question
Part Two of "Brian's Song."
Wednesday
Journal - What is something that scares you?
PSSA Prep Question
Finish Part Two. Read "Pic." Read and review selection questions.
Thursday
Test on "Brian's Song."
Friday
Reading Day
Week of January 12th
Monday
Journal - Why do you come to school?
Introduction to PSSA question prep
Review "Brian's Song."
Continue reading Part One of "Brian's Song."
Tuesday
Journal - What is important to Brian? What is important to Gale?
PSSA Prep question
Finish Part One of "Brian's Song."
Wednesday
Journal - Use four of your vocabulary words in a journal entry.
PSSA Prep question
Vocabulary - Unit Six Due - Vocabulary 4Square due tomorrow.
Thursday
Journal -
Unit Six Vocabulary Quiz
PSSA Prep Quesiton
Part Two of "Brian's Song."
Friday
Journal -
PSSA Prep Question
Part Two of "Brian's Song."
Week of January 5th
Monday
Journal - What is more important, winning or friendship?
Introduction to drama
Begin reading "Brian's Song."
Tuesday
Journal - Do aliens exist?
Introduction to Unit Six Vocabulary - Due Wednesday, January 14th.
Wednesday
Journal - What do we know about Brian and Gale?
Continue reading "Brian's Song."
Thursday
Journal - Summarize "Brian's Song" so far.
Finish Part One of "Brian's Song."
Friday
Reading Day
Week of December 22nd
Monday - Tuesday
No Journal
Presentation of Bitstrip story to the class.
Wednesday - Friday
Happy Holidays!
Week of December 15th
Monday - Wednesday
Journals - Monday - Describe the five elements of story. Tuesday - What is your bitstrip story? Wednesday - What is the best part of the holiday season?
Students will create their own story - they will present it as a bitstrip. They should have their prewriting finished for Tuesday.
Thursday
Vocabulary Packet - Unit Five Due - Journal - Use four vocabulary words in a paragraph.
Friday
No Journal
Vocabulary Quiz - Unit Five
Finish Bitsrip Assignment
Week of December 8th
Monday - Wednesday
Students will be completing a second round of CDT testing.
Thursday
Journal - What is something difficult to do?
Introduction to Unit Five Vocabulary - due Thursday, December 18th.
Friday
Reading Day
Week of December 2nd
Monday
No School
Tuesday
Journal - What are you thankful for?
Share Bitstrip comic and embed on wiki.
Wednesday
Journal - Who deserves a second chance?
Review third person point of view and read "A Retrieved Reformation." Students will respond to the margin questions as they read.
Thursday
Journal - Summarize "A Retrieved Reformation."
Review "A Retrieved Reformation."
Friday
Students will plan and perform a short Third Person Point of View play.
Week of November 24th
Monday - Wednesday
No Journal
Students will be introduced to bitstrips for schools. Students will create an avatar and a comic about one of the elements of short story. They will embed that comic on the class wiki. If they finish early, they will be able to read their AR book and share those comics with classmates.
Thursday-Friday
No School
Week of November 17th
Monday
Journal - What is something you treasure?
Review graphic organizers for "The Scholarship Jacket."
End of reading questions assigned.
Tuesday
Journal - Describe the five elements of story.
Review questions
Review for selection test tomorrow
Introduce writing piece - # 9 on page 232
Wednesday
Selection test on "The Scholarship Jacket."
Thursday
Journal - Write a paragraph using four of your vocabulary words.
Unit Four Vocabulary due
Continue writing piece
Friday
No Journal
Unit Four Vocabulary Quiz
Students will use their OneDrive to type their writing piece.
Week of November 10th
Monday
No School - Parent Conferences
Tuesday
Journal - What is a legend?
Introduction to Unit Four vocabulary.
Wednesday
Journal - Respond to page 224 in the textbook.
Students will read "The Scholarship Jacket" and respond to the questions in the margins.
Thursday
Journal - Describe the plot of "The Scholarship Jacket."
Review "The Scholarship Jacket" as a whole class.
Friday
No Journal
Reading Day
Week of November 3rd
Monday - Tuesday
Students will present their podcasts to the class for review.
Wednesday
Introduction to Unit Four Vocabulary.
Thursday
Journal - Happiness is...
Students will read the nonsense poem, The Jabberwocky and write their own poem using rhyme, lines and stanzas.
Friday
Students will be introduced to their student email account. They will email a copy of their nonsense poem.
Week of October 27th
Monday
Students will work on a rough draft of an argumentative essay.
Tuesday
Students will peer review essay.
Wednesday
Students will revise essays and work on podcast as a final draft.
Thursday
Unit three vocabulary due.
Friday
Unit three vocabulary quiz.
Continue working on podcast.
Week of October 20th
Monday
Margin questions for "Rikki-tikki-tavi" due. We will review the questions and assign a plot triangle for the story.
Tuesday
Review "Rikki-tikki-tavi" and introduce argumentative writing piece on page 162.
Wednesday
Students will have a test on "Rikki-tikki-tavi."
Thursday
Students will have a class day to plan and draft their argumentative essay - rough draft will be worked on Monday, October 27th.
Friday
The last Reading Day before the end of the nine weeks.
Week of October 13th
Monday
Teacher In Service
Tuesday - Thursday
Students will read the short story "Rikki-tikki-tavi" with a partner. What they do not finish will be homework due on Monday, October 20th.
Friday
Reading Day
Week of October 6th
Monday
Vocabulary, Unit Two due.
Introduce Constructed Response
Tuesday
Vocabulary Quiz
Students will continue draft constructed response.
Wednesday - Thursday
Students will peer review essays.
Students will post constructed response wikispaces.
Friday
Reading Day
Week of September 29th
Monday - Tuesday
With a partner, students will read "The Last Dog" starting on page 48 and respond to the questions in the margins.
Wednesday
Large group discussion of "The Last Dog."
Thursday
Introduction to constructed response on page 64.
Selection test on "The Last Dog."
Friday
Drafting of constructed response.
Week of September 22nd
Monday - Wednesday
Students will be introduced to computer use in the classroom and will be taking their CDT (Classroom Diagnostic Tool).
Thursday
Students will be introduced to Unit Two Vocabulary.
Friday
Students will have a Reading Day.
Week of September 15th
Monday
Introduction to literature and short story.
Students will review pages 34 and 35 and begin reading "Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto with a partner.
Tuesday - Wednesday
Students will continue to read the selection with a partner.
Thursday
Whole class review of the selection.
Friday
Students will have a test on "Seventh Grade."
Week of September 8th
Monday - Tuesday
Students will outline their narrative essay and complete a first draft. They are writing about something that happened to them during the first two weeks of school.
Wednesday
Students will respond to a peer's draft.
Thursday
Students will create a final copy...old school style.
Friday
Students will finish their final copy and then read their AR book.
Week of September 1st
Monday
Labor Day - No School
Tuesday
I Am Poems are due. Students will present them to the class.
Wednesday
Students will finish presenting I Am Poems. Introduction to the Writing Process and Narrative Writing.
Thursday
Vocabulary Unit One Due - We will review the vocabulary.
Prewriting and Drafting as part of the writing process.
Friday
Vocabulary Quiz on Unit One.
Introduction to using the computers in the classroom and Study Island Pretest.
Week of August 25th
Monday
Introduction to the class. Students will bring home information for parents including information for Remind.
Tuesday
Introduction to Unit One Vocabulary, due September 4th..
Wednesday
Introduction to "I Am" poem - due September 2nd.
Thursday - Friday
Introduction to the library